216 DESCRIPTION OF A 



REPORT ON THE MELOE, OR LYTTA, 

 By W. Hunter, Efq. 



The circumftance refpe6Hng your new fpecies of 



Mexoe or Ly it j, which I lately liadoccaiionto obfervc, 

 was lliortly as follows : 



Tincture of them was directed as an external appli- 

 cation to a man's arm, which was paralytic in confe- 

 quence of rheumatifm. On the firit application fe- 

 veral vesications were railed, as completely diftended 

 with ferum, as if a bliiter had been applied. I am 

 not particularly informed, what proportion the flies 

 bore to the menftruum ; but, I think it was fomething 

 greater than that directed by the London college for 

 the tincture of the officinal kind. 



March Qth, 17 96. 



REPORT ON THE EFFECT PRODUCED BY A 



SPECIES OF MELOE, FOUND IN 



BENGAL, BEHAR, AND OUDE. 



By \V> R. Monroe, Efq: 



I received your packet containing the fpecimens of 

 the new bliftering fly, a few days ago, whilft I was 

 buiily employed in preparations for my departure from 

 this ftation. I loft no time, however, in making a 

 trial of their efficacy on three different patients who 

 required buffering. They Succeeded in each trial ; 

 though the effect was in none produced completely 

 in let's than ten hours ; and the vesications even then 

 were tilled with a lerum rather gelatinous than fluid. 



As far as theife few trials authorife a conclusion, we 

 may fafely conlider them a valuable fubltitute for the 

 canthari'des ; though I mould think they will not, in 

 general,- be found fo active as the Spanijh iiy, in its 

 moft perfect ftate of pre ierva lion. Captain Hard- 



wigke 



